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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8446474 | Automatic file transmission system For automatically transmitting an image file, a system transmits the file automatically through specifically specifying information for file transmission such as an address of a destination. The system includes a memory for storing a data file and an automatic trans... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8441537 | Portable terminal apparatus for capturing only one image, and captured image processing system for obtaining high resolution image data based on the captured only one image and outputting high resolution image An image output apparatus receives a single piece of captured image data from a portable terminal apparatus, and carries out, in accordance with the single piece of captured image data received, a high resolution correction for creating high resolution image data wh... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8432452 | Imaging system and information processing apparatus for presenting functional information relating to a shooting mode to an imaging apparatus The present invention is directed to providing a shooting mode according to a user's need of an imaging apparatus, whereby a user can easily select the shooting mode. Firstly, an information processing apparatus provides a list, which includes a shooting mode corres... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8416305 | Portable Wi-Fi digital video camcorder and system with thereof A portable Wi-Fi digital video camcorder includes a battery, a wireless network unit, an LCD unit, a video-stream capturing unit and a processing unit. The battery supplies power to the portable Wi-Fi digital video camcorder. The video-stream capturing unit captures... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411149 | Method and device for identifying and extracting images of multiple users, and for recognizing user gestures The invention relates to a method for identifying and extracting images of one or more users in an interactive environment comprising the steps of: —obtaining a depth map (7) of a scene in the form of an array of depth values, and an image (8) of sai... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411150 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium In an apparatus, object information and information on a transmission destination representing the transmission destination of image data are registered in correspondence with each other. An object in the image data is identified. The image data is transmitted to a ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8405729 | System and method for pairing hand-held devices utilizing a front-facing camera A hand-held wireless communications device includes a camera integrated within a housing of the wireless communications device, a front-facing lens assembly to focus light onto the camera, a display, and a controller connected to the camera and the display. The cont... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8395669 | Image data transmission apparatus and method, remote display control apparatus and control method thereof, program, and storage medium In a case where a display screen of a transmission originator, including image data such as photographs, is displayed remotely on a device of a transmission destination, compressed image data of the image portion such as photographs on the display screen which is st... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8395668 | System and methods for network computing interaction with camera A multi-functional digital imaging system is described that disaggregates camera functions into network computing interactions with at least one image capture device. The camera captures the image and sends the image file to at least one external computer for filtra... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8384785 | System and methods for video imaging modulation A multi-functional digital imaging system is described that disaggregates camera functions into video imaging modulation processes, including DSP feedback, moving object modulation, frame rate modulation, video file analysis and video file organization. ... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8380045 | Systems and methods for robust video signature with area augmented matching Systems and methods are provided for generating unique signatures for digital video files to locate video sequences within a video file comprising calculating a frame signature for each frame of a first video; and for a second video: calculating a frame signature fo... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8363113 | Terminal and blogging method thereof Disclosed are a terminal and a blogging method thereof. In the blogging method, a preview image displayed through a camera is recognized to acquire information of the preview image. It is determined whether there is a stored blog that has background information that... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8363112 | Terminal, camera unit, and terminal camera unit system A portable terminal selectively includes either a camera unit which has an image pickup section and is formed with an engagement part or a cover unit formed with the same engagement part as the camera unit. An attachment part for engaging with the engagement part is... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358348 | Method and system for automatic or manual evaluation to provide targeted and individualized delivery of cosmetic actives in a mask or patch form A system and method are provided for targeted and individualized delivery of multiple skin benefit agents to the skin of a user. The image of a predetermined treatment area of the user's skin is first captured by an imaging device. Selective data input from analysis... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8355049 | Solid-state imaging device including an optical communication section placed in proximity to an optical black area and signal processing system A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel section formed on a substrate and having an effective pixel area that converts incident light into an electric signal, and an optical black area placed around the effective pixel area; an optical communication section p... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8345106 | Camera-based scanning Embodiments of camera-based scanning are described. In various embodiments, scanned documents can be created using images captured by a camera associated with a device. An image captured by the camera is processed to identify portions within the image that correspon... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8345105 | System and method for accessing and utilizing ancillary data with an electronic camera device A system and method for accessing and utilizing ancillary data with an electronic camera device includes a data source that stores various selectable ancillary data files such as image template files, text overlay files, image background files, and special program i... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8339465 | Image capture apparatus In the presence of a switching instruction of operation modes in an image capture apparatus, it is examined whether image data is being transferred or not. When the image data is not being transferred, the operation modes are immediately switched. When the image dat... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8325239 | Digital video camera with retractable data connector and resident software application A digital video camera may include a digital video image sensor for capturing digital video footage to be stored on an internal memory. The digital video image sensor and internal memory may be housed in a camera body. A retractable arm having a data connector may b... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8319837 | Method for sharing file between control point and media server in a DLNA system, and system thereof A method for sharing a file between a control point and a media server in a DLNA system, and a system thereof are provided, in which the control point captures a photo, determines a similarity between a facial image included in the captured photo and a facial image ... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8319835 | Image transfer system for a network An electronic camera having a function of accessing a specific server via Internet includes: a storage unit in which related information concerning the electronic camera is stored in advance; a generation unit that dynamically generates an identifier to be used to i... | 11/27/2012 |
| RE43786 | Digital observation system A digital observation system and method for processing and transmitting video data between a video camera, or video cameras, and a base unit. The video data is transmitted, for example, by a communication protocol that is compliant with Ethernet physical drivers for... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8305452 | Remote determination of image-acquisition settings and opportunities Pre-image-acquisition information is obtained by a digital camera and transmitted to a system external to the digital camera. The system is configured to provide image-acquisition settings to the digital camera. In this regard, the digital camera receives the image-... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8305451 | Adapter apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program Media data, which includes an image file recorded on a disk recording medium of a connected image sensing apparatus, management information including the recording position of the image file on the disk recording medium, and backup information of the management info... | 11/06/2012 |
| 8274567 | Image processing method, apparatus and system An image processing method comprises receiving, from a camera, a camera captured image comprising a user drawn image. At least part of the user drawn image is within a field of view of the camera. The method comprises applying an image processing operation to the ca... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8253807 | Information processing apparatus and method An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit, a second obtaining unit and a display control unit. The first obtaining unit obtains, from an electronic device connected to the information processing apparatus, image data stored in a memory medi... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8253806 | Image sharing system, image managing server, and control method and program thereof An image processing apparatus determines categories for classifying image data based on shooting information of the image data, generates an update information file for each category, and uploads the update information file along with the image data to an image mana... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8243145 | Information processing terminal and terminal selection system An image capturing apparatus which performs connection setting to a desired processing apparatus among more than one processing apparatus connected to a network comprises a control unit which instructs each of the processing apparatuses so as to perform identificati... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8237801 | Image processing system and communication method An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that determine a processing to be performed on an image at a remote processing resource, capture an image, and transmit to the remote processing resource, in response to a triggering e... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8223209 | Parameter configuration apparatus and method An image corresponding to an image processing parameter value currently configured in an image input device is displayed in an area. Images obtained when the image parameter value is changed to different values are displayed in areas around the area. A user can conf... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8208785 | Video recording system, video camera, video recording apparatus, method of controlling video recording apparatus by video camera, and method of recording video signal in video recording A video recording system is provided in which reliability of information supplied from a video camera to control recording and the like is improved when video being obtained by a video camera is recorded in one or more VTRs. In the video recording system, the video ... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8194137 | Image frame transmission method for data overrun control An image frame transmission method for use in a network transmission system is provided. The network transmission system includes an image sensor and an image processor. Firstly, a first image data segment of an image frame captured by the image sensor is outputted ... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8194138 | Portable electronic device and camera module thereof A portable electronic device includes a flat display, a transparent window, an optical element, an optical zoom lens set and an image sensing element. The flat display includes a display panel with a viewing direction. The transparent window, the optical element, th... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8154603 | Imaging device transferring data to external device An imaging device comprises an interface for connecting an external recording device, a control circuit for controlling data communication with the external recording device connected to the interface, and an information storage. The control circuit comprises a conn... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149280 | Face detection image processing device, camera device, image processing method, and program Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a face detector configured to detect a face from an image given on a basis of detection information; and a processing unit configured to set the detection information of the face detector, receive at least an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144201 | Portable computer capable of performing digital photo frame function under main-power-off state This invention discloses a portable computer capable of performing a digital photo frame function under a main-power-off state. The portable computer includes a base, a display device, an image capturing device, an image capturing switch, and a processor. The displa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134600 | Internet direct device An Internet direct device comprises an imaging system and a microprocessor. The imaging system captures still or video images. The microprocessor transmits the captured still or video images to another Internet direct device upon image capture, and receives still or... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130275 | Information-processing apparatus, and storage medium storing a photographing application launch program executed by information-processing apparatus An information-processing apparatus stores in advance a photographing application program. Further, the information-processing apparatus comprises photographing processing means which has a function different from that of the photographing application program. In a ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120657 | Image acquiring device with positioning assisting functionality An image acquiring device with positioning assisting functionality is for acquiring an image of an object to be captured, and includes a positioning assisting unit and an image acquiring unit. The positioning assisting unit emits light toward a planar surface. The l... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8102425 | Electronic camera and image transfer method adopted in electronic camera An electronic camera includes: a communication unit engaged in communication with an external device; a selection unit that selects a transfer method of a photographic image; a transfer control unit that controls the communication unit so as to start, in response to... | 01/24/2012 |
